Introducing TDD to Managers

In my last blog post, I discussed different ways of introducing test-driven development to teams. The bottom line is to give developers an experience of benefiting from doing TDD. Once they see how their tests catch bugs that otherwise would have perhaps escaped and had to be fixed later, and how TDD helps them keep focused on building software that fulfills acceptance criteria, and gives them the opportunity to refactor and clean up their code, then developers begin to see the benefit for themselves and want to continue to do it.

But convincing some managers, especially those who really don't understand what software development is all about, can be a challenge. I believe that constructing software is fundamentally different than constructing physical things. Software is unique and very often the techniques we use to manage other kinds of projects don't work for managing software projects. It takes a while to gain experience as a manager in the software industry.

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